No, This Floating Traffic Signal Is Not From Mumbai

A video from China of a traffic signal being swept away on a flooded street is being shared with the false claim that it is from Mumbai.

In the six second video, one can spot a traffic signal floating in the water on an inundated street. The video is viral in the backdrop of Mumbai receiving incessant rains resulting in water logging on September 4.

Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri tweeted the video asking the Mumbai Traffic Police what was the fine amount " if a signal crosses the road."

Hello Traffic Police of Mumbai,

How much fine if the signal crosses the road? pic.twitter.com/zDQ51YLEng

— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) September 5, 2019

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Quint Neon also included a a shot from the viral video in its 'Perfect playlist for Mumbaikars' tweet.

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Breaking News.. First time in history.. signal is crossing the road😜😂🤣 #Trafficviolation #TrafficFine #TrafficRules #Traffic #TrafficSignal #MumbaiRains #Delhi #MumbaiRainlive #MumbaiTraffic #Ahemdabadtraffic #Ahemdabad pic.twitter.com/jkApn9Oy1F

— filmy station (@LakhwaraMayank) September 4, 2019

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FACT-CHECK

We ran a reverse image search on keyframes from the video and were led to results from Chinese news websites and blogs.

A longer version of the video was uploaded by China Global Television Network (CGTN), a nationally owned media outlet in China on its YouTube Channel on May 12, 2018.

According to CGTN, the video was filmed in Yulin City of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Additionally the shop boards in the background a sticker visible on a two wheeler in the viral video are in Mandarin.

The same video was previously viral in June 2018, and shared by a Facebook page claiming that the video clip was shot in Luchuan County in Guangxi, China in May.

We also found the same video uploaded in September 2018, on Tencent Video, a Chinese video streaming site. In the video, at 33 seconds, a partial number plate is visible on a black car parked by the side of the road.

The visible characters on the plate are "HF86" and it is a blue number plate with white letters. A search revealed that no region or state in India and no number plates in India are registered using "HF".

More than 70,000 people in Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region were affected by heavy downpours reported China Daily on May 11, 2018.